lime-fingered

adj

Definitions

  1. Given to petty thievery

    Given to petty thievery; light-fingered.

    • A clean-fingered huswife, and an idle, folk say, And will be lime-fingered, I fear, by my fay!
    • Not careless, slothful, false, lime-fingered servants; but the strict master, that observes, and rates, and chastises them: would he hold his hands and tongue, there would be peace.
    • Popes long hands and Lime-fingered Appeales.

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